Morning Sahsima
This is another face of the multiple personalities of Sahsima, the transformer stone on Harling Point.
This image taken shortly after dawn about 50 minutes after yesterday‘s photograph, looking west rather than south east and from a bit further west on Harling Point. What gives this photo extra interest for me is the bull kelp in the foreground and that the base of Sahsima looks as if it is reflecting in the water when really it is just part of the rock showing through the transparent misty waves from the long exposure.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Canon 50/1.4 lens, ISO100, Polarising filter, f22, 4 seconds.
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Excellent composition. Glad you explained what was on the rock; I was ready to shout cryptid/cthulhu. 🙂
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Hi elmediat – thanks for commenting. And yes, cryptid indeed. In the neck of the weeds we would normally refer to a marine cryptid as Cadborosaurus or sisiutl to use one of the local First Nation’s name.
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Beautiful!
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Thank you Ryan – it works for me too.
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On a little geological side note, I can add that the transformer stone is a glacial drop stone that is part of “The Chief”, a great rock climbing mountain in Squamish, BC which is about 180kms north of its current location.
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Hi Branta – thanks for adding that bit of information. I was taught to call them glacial erratics, but I expect that means the same thing. Its a bit strange to have a big chunk of granite sitting around in an area with very little granite bedrock.
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SNAKE! I am with drawandshoot…snake!! You are SO making me want to get out there and use my ND filters (perhaps an outing to the beach is required this weekend eh?). 😀
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Hope you got out today – it was a wonderful day here and I could see your area in my distant horizon and it looked nice over that way too. Unfortunately I did not get out with my camera today, and may regret it next week if I end up picking through some of hte leftovers in my all too thin archive. This was still early enough in the morning that the polarizing filter was enough density to get a long shot – I did not even have my ND filter yet when I took this one.
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At first glance that looked like a snake on the rock, a long writhing sea dragon perhaps…
An amazing changing view you have there!
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Even that kelp was changing – the swell was washing over the rock sometimes as I was taking pictures and slowly moved that kelp across the rock so I have several different views of it just from a few minutes.
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